Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longest countdowns in diplomatic memory-and one of the most frustrating. For months the end of the U.S.-Soviet arms talks has seemed so imminent that officials and reporters have mounted a kind of SALT vigil. But a settlement keeps turning out to be just beyond reach. No sooner have negotiators resolved what earlier had been described as the last few issues than new points of dispute...
...world's poorest countries have borrowed so much to pay for oil that their accumulated indebtedness has risen to more than $210 billion. Such major U.S. lenders as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan have huge loans out to India, Pakistan, Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers will not be able to afford even their interest payments. The threat is not simply of defaults leading to instability, but of worsening hunger and unrest among the world's more than 1 billion subsistence-level people...
Grabbing a two-seat advantage off the start, the B.U. lights settled down to a 35-stroke-per-minute cadence sooner than the already trailing Radcliffe crew. Cox Susie Peterson called for a silent power ten on the settle, moving the Crimson back within striking distance. However, B.U. pulled out to a length bulge in the second 500; and the Radcliffe team could not recover, although it moved up on the leaders in the final 250 meters, upping the cadence to 38 and sprinting the last 40 strokes...
...like a mother who is feeding her baby on one breast, and when she realizes that on the left breast there is no milk, she takes it and is about to put it on the right, but meanwhile the baby cries for it feels lost. But no sooner does it cry than the mother puts it on the right one. So the human mind is like the baby: it cries when it has to leave the old body. But leaving the empty body it is put into a bright, beautiful body. So then I realized--it was a dawning, Joyful...
...found out later a bus direct from Annapolis would've gotten us there sooner," Cominsky said after the confusion had settled...